Chapter 3 Chapter Three Lease Period Three Years

Xinhong saw that I was catching up and told me to run, saying that the driver was weird and not human.I thought to myself, where are the ghosts in broad daylight?This kid usually doesn't speak, and when he speaks, he scares people to death.However, I have been with Xinhong for so many years, and I have never seen him make such a joke.Therefore, I subconsciously ran along, but I ran past a turning, but I didn't see the driver catching up. "Aren't you making fun of me?" I said out of breath. "It's true. I sat in the back and saw it clearly. The skin below his neck is all bark!" Xinhong vowed.

"Bark!?" I laughed when I heard this, no one in the world has bark skin, this kid has a broken head, right? Seeing that I didn't believe it, Xinhong dragged me along while talking.It turned out that before going to Tianshan Mountain, Xinhong asked around about what happened to Sha Yilin on Tianshan Mountain.What we do in archaeology is to collect information everywhere, so we can do it with ease.What the driver brother said was similar to what he had heard, but there was one more important piece of information.I saw that what Xinhong said was very serious, and I knew there was something to be said, so I pricked up my ears to understand.

The local people have a legend that the red demon has a group of dryad minions. These dryads are no different from ordinary people, but the skin below the neck is the same as the bark of a tree.Hearing what Xinhong said, I remembered that the driver was indeed wearing gloves, and the neck was tightly wrapped.Xinhong also said that he saw that the skin below the driver's neck looked like bark, so he insisted on walking to Datianchi.Anyway, there are not many roads left, just treat it as exercise and keep healthy.If the driver is really uneasy and kind, it will be too late to regret. "Are you really reading that right?" I still can't believe it, where in this world did the dryads actually infiltrate human society.

"There's nothing you can do if you don't believe me. It's no good for me to lie to you. You have no money and no power." Xinhong smiled faintly. I am a materialist, it is hard to believe what Xinhong said without seeing it with my own eyes.But having said that, in the past three years we have dealt with cultural relics, we have seen many strange things.None of us could convince anyone, Xinhong finally gave in and stopped arguing with me.Slowly climb up all the way, jump over a 400-meter-high natural dam, a picturesque lake with rippling blue waves appears in front of you, it is Tianshan Tianchi.

There is an ancient elm tree on the north bank of Tianchi Lake, which is said to be the divine hairpin of the Queen Mother of the West.Legend has it that the Queen Mother held a Peach Blossom Festival in Yaochi, and gods from all walks of life were invited to the banquet, but the Yaochi Water Monster was not invited, and it turned into monsters, turned the pool and dumped the sea, and made it so cold that the Peach Blossom Festival could not drink and sing.In her rage, the Queen Mother of the West pulled out a hairpin from her head and inserted it on the north bank of the Yaochi to suppress the water monsters and calm the raging waves.Later, at the place where the treasure hairpin was inserted, an elm tree grew.

This ancient elm, growing at an altitude of 1910 meters above sea level, is the only one growing alone.The special natural environment adds to the spirit of this outstanding ancient elm.Even in a year of abundant water, if the lake water rises again, it can only reach its roots. "Tell me, will that ancient elm also become a monster?" I deliberately made fun of Xinhong with this ancient tree. Xinhong didn't care about it with me. He looked at the darkening sky and said, "Hurry up and find a hotel to settle down. With your free time to grind your mouth, I'm afraid a child may be born."

I knew what Xinhong said was right. Anyway, it doesn't matter if the driver is a dryad or not. We've already reached the edge of the Tianchi Lake. Maybe we have to run down and ask him to take off his clothes for us to understand.There are some hotels around Datianchi, both of high and low grades. We are so cash-strapped that we wish we could live in the wild.However, for the sake of safety, you still have to spend some money reluctantly, living in the product of human civilization, you will always feel at ease. We went around Tianchi to compare the prices of each hotel, not to mention whether it was expensive or not, there were not even any hotels with vacancies, and every hotel was full.We walked around Tianchi pitifully, and there was no hotel to pick up guests. It was only spring, and we didn't expect that there were so many tourists in Tianshan.Finally, in an unremarkable hotel not far from Zhenhai Guyu, I stalked them to vacate a hotel. Unexpectedly, after their boss came down, he whispered to them and said There is actually a room available.

This group of people was sneaky, and I looked like a black shop in a movie, so I felt nervous, but for the sake of face, I had to bite the bullet and live in it.Anyway, there is no other place to live, and my legs will be disabled if I walk any further.We two big men will not suffer, and we don't have much money on us, neither sex nor wealth will be robbed. "Didn't you just say that there is no room, why did you suddenly say that you have it?" I curiously asked the waitress who led us upstairs. The waiter was very beautiful, not like a local, she was full of aura, she smiled and said: "It's like this. We didn't have any room in our store, but just today, the lease of one room has expired." , just for you to live in."

When Xinhong heard it, he was more curious than me. He asked, "The lease term? So the room is not for two or three days?" "Three years, but it's strange to say that that person paid rent for three years from the beginning, but he didn't show up again after only staying for a few days. It just so happens that his lease period just expired today, you are so lucky." The waitress Smiling and answering, we have come to the hotel room. "Wait, you said you rented this room for three years, but that person didn't show up again?" I was shocked, it couldn't be such a coincidence, could it be that Uncle Zou rented it?

"What's that man's name and what does he look like?" Xinhong, who had always been prudent, lost his composure and asked excitedly. "I'm sorry, this is a guest's secret, we can't reveal it casually." The waitress kept a professional smile, and after she opened the door, she said, "The room will be tidied up later, please call us if you need anything. Have a nice day." After the waitress left, Xinhong and I looked at each other, thinking the same thing.How could it be such a coincidence that when we came, the hotel by the Tianchi Lake was full of people, we managed to find a hotel, and this hotel was where Uncle Zou lived three years ago?

"Why don't we change places?" Seeing my suspicious face, Xinhong suggested. "It's because of this that we have to live." I thought so in my heart, but I finally got a clue, so how could I give up so easily.Maybe it was this unscrupulous hotel that rebelled against the money, killed Uncle Zou, and then left the body in Sha Yilin, who was feared by everyone. "Your guess is not unreasonable, but where did Dad get the money from?" Xinhong denied my speculation. When I heard what he said, I was startled for a moment. What Xinhong said was right. Uncle Zou was poor all his life and never bought any luxury items. Where could he find so much money to rent the hotel for three years, let alone him? There are a lot of banknotes that make people malicious.Could it be that we made a mistake, the person who rented this room for three years was not Uncle Zou? That night, in order to confirm whether Uncle Zou had rented the house three years ago, Xinhong searched the house, but there was no useful information.I don't know if Uncle Zou didn't stay on purpose, or he had already been cleaned up, but nothing was found.I saw that it was dinner time, so I dragged Xinhong out of the room, then ran to the front desk, deliberately making friends with the waitress. "Oh, this beautiful eldest sister, do you know what's delicious here?" I deliberately pretended to be a heinous person. "It's more delicious, it depends on what you want to eat." The waitress smiled reluctantly. I saw that there were no other staff at the front desk of the hotel, and they probably all went to eat, leaving only a weak woman, so I pestered her and asked her to take me out for a walk.The waiter pestered me so much that she almost called the police, accusing me of harassing her, but she took me out in a panic after I pretended to have a stomachache.Xinhong and I are in the same heart. As soon as I left, he went through the account books at the front desk. When I came back, he found a reliable piece of information. The person who rented the house three years ago was Zou Yu ——Uncle Zou. "What did Uncle Zou do? How did he get so much money?" I was extremely surprised. Uncle Zou must have done something shameful, or embezzled some money.However, he is just a commoner, even if he has a corrupt heart, he doesn't have the opportunity to be corrupt.In order to talk, Xinhong and I had an excuse to have dinner and walked out of the hotel.As a result, the waitress worked so hard to get the dumplings, but we didn't eat any of them.We chose a shoal of Tianchi, and speculated about many possibilities, but we couldn't find a suitable answer. At night in Tianchi, the cool breeze blows gently, making us feel comfortable all over.When we were about to leave, we saw a few looming lights floating from the south on the vast Tianchi Lake.I thought to myself, could it be the water ghost in Tianchi, his grandma's, who wanted to take my life, if I didn't beat it to death, the world would have to be turned upside down. Xinhong saw that I was thinking wildly, so he said that it was just carpentry.On the south bank of Tianchi Lake, there is a wide and dense pine sea.It is almost summer now, and there is no way to transport dead wood from south to north at this time, so the wood has to be bundled into rows and put into the pool to go down the river.The best time to put rafts is at night, because the wind blowing uphill in Tianchi during the day and the wind blowing downhill at night.At this time, it is necessary to raise the sails, and the wooden rafts will ride the wind and waves, and they will arrive in no time, and light a small lamp on the sails, one for illuminating the navigation, and the other for auspiciousness.Let the carpenter stand in the row, steer the helm and pull the sail.At this time, people go to the birds and return to their nests, the mountains sleep in the forest, and the sky is silent. "You're not talking nonsense, are you? How do I think your fire is not like a carpenter's fire, but like a will-o'-the-wisp?" I squinted my eyes and looked into the distance, feeling very puzzled. The firelight on the other side kept swaying, and kept sticking to the water surface. How could the carpenter's lights float close to the water surface.Xinhong took a closer look and felt that something was wrong, so he stretched his head out like me, wishing his head could fly to the surface of the water.When the fire was approaching, a few strange things came into view, and I cursed in my heart, fuck its ancestors, this thing is really evil!